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Abstract

We report the genome sequence of Exiguobacterium pavilionensis str. N139, isolated from a high-altitude Andean lake. The 2,952,588-bp genome contains one chromosome and three megaplasmids. The genome analysis suggests the presence of enzymes that confer E. pavilionensis str. N139 the ability to grow under multiple environmental extreme conditions, including high concentrations of different metals and high ultraviolet B radiation. Moreover, the regulation of its tryptophan biosynthesis suggests that novel pathways remain to be discovered, and that these pathways might be fundamental in the amino acid metabolism of the microbial community from Laguna Negra, Argentina .

Amparo Latorre conceived and designed the experiments, analyzed the data, wrote the paper, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Valeria Souza conceived and designed the experiments, analyzed the data, wrote the paper, reviewed drafts of the paper.

DNA Deposition

The following information was supplied regarding the deposition of DNA sequences:

This Whole Genome Shotgun project has been deposited at GenBank under the accession JMEH00000000. The version described in this paper is version JMEH001000000.1; BioSample SAMN02732272

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/JMEH00000000.1

Data Deposition

The following information was supplied regarding data availability:

Raw data is the genome fasqual and sff files and can be found here:

http://www.ibt.unam.mx/biocomputo/downloads/rawGenome.tar.gz

Funding

AGP was supported by SECITI Postdoctoral Fellowship 029/2013, and at present she is a recipient of a junior postdoctoral contract in the Prometeo Program from the Gobierno Valenciano; CVC by a fellowship from CONACyT Mexico (462083); MRP by the EU Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN) Symbiomics: Molecular ecology and evolution of bacterial symbionts [FP7-PEOPLE-2010-ITN]; OFO is a recipient of a Posdoctoral Fellowship from Bunge and Born Foundation; TRP is funded by a Postdoctoral Fellowship from CONACyT Mexico; JVA is supported by a fellowship from CONACyT Mexico (207187); EAR is funded by a NSF grant 1136602. This work has been partially funded by BFU2012-39816-C02-01 (co-financed by FEDER funds and Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, Spain) to AL; PrometeoII/2014/0065 from Valencian Community (Spain), to AM; and by a grant from WWF-Alianza Carlos Slim to VS. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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